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The Day Lightning Struck On The Pitch Killing One Team, Leaving Other 11 Rival Players Untouched
- On this fateful day, Football fans across the central African state of Congo were hurling accusations of witchcraft at each other.
- A freak blast of lightning struck dead an entire team on the playing field while their opponents were left completely untouched.
A sporting occasion in 1998 that happened in DRC congo is a major concern to the football industry up-to-date. While the match was still 1-1 scoreline, lighting struck the field leaving 11 players dead.
The match constituted of Bena Tshedi vs Basangamo both teams from the DRC congo. All the 11 players of Bena Tshedi were killed by the lighting leaving the Basangamo players safe.
The bizarre blow by the weather to all 11 members of the football team was reported in the daily newspaper L’Avenir in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo.
“Lightning killed at a stroke 11 young people aged between 20 and 35 years during a football match,” the newspaper reported .
It went on to say that 30 other people had received burns at the weekend match, held in the eastern province of Kasai. “The athletes from Basanga [the home team] curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed.”
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The suspicion that the black arts might be involved arose firstly because the opposing team emerged unharmed and then again because the score at the time was a delicately balanced one all.
“The exact nature of the lightning has divided the population in this region which is known for its use of fetishes in football,” the newspaper commented.
Much of the details about the match remains obscure as the Congo – officially known as the Democratic Republic of Congo – remains stricken by civil war between the government of Laurent Kabila and rebel forces, backed by neighbouring Rwanda, in the east of the country.
Witchcraft is often blamed for adverse natural phenomena throughout western and central Africa. It is relatively frequent for football teams to hire witchdoctors to place hexes on their opponents.
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